This was certainly not always the case. The contrast is blatant with ancient utilitarian buildings such as cathedrals, convents or churches. They are always there; they fulfill a historical function in our consciousness, feed our culture and memory. Even collapsing, they remain romantic moorings for the memory. The premature disappearance of our own buildings is not without consequences. A culture without tangible and durable history is bound to be eradicated. The reality will be replaced by a thought, a virtual reality, especially easy to manipulate.

Communication by computers may be the prelude of a world which loses ties which one finds now unimportant but which can become very important later.